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Kim Kardashian hits Paris couture week with designer Valentino

Kim Kardashian and fashion designer Valentino pose for photographers prior to the presentation of the Valentino Fall Winter 2014-15 Haute Couture fashion collection Wednesday in Paris.
(Francois Mori / Associated Press)
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Kim Kardashian accompanied designer Valentino Garavani at his namesake couture show in Paris on Wednesday.

The “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star walked into the show, held at the Hotel Salomon de Rothschild, arm-in-arm with the Italian brand’s founding designer and wearing a plunging blue silk gown that boasted a few water spots thanks to the inclement weather.

Garavani, who hosted Kardashian’s pre-wedding brunch at his mansion outside Paris in May, met the reality star through her husband, rapper Kanye West, and the two seemed to be thick as thieves as they sat front row at the show.

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The fashionista and legendary designer took in creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Mount Olympus-inspired fall/winter 2014-2015 couture collection. Chiuri and Piccioli took over the brand after Garavani stepped down in January 2008. (Alessandra Facchinetti was briefly the house’s designer in the interim).

A newly blond (and newly wed) Olivia Palermo also attended the show with her hubby Johannes Huebl, as did “Harry Potter” alum Emma Watson, Greece’s Crown Princess Marie-Chantal and Princess Maria-Olympia.

But back to Kardashian, who told the Associated Press that life has become a lot more “calm” since her whirlwind Italian wedding to West in May.

“Laughter is such a good medicine. It’s definitely got calmer since I married. I love my life with my husband and my baby,” she told AP, which said Kardashian looked “radiant” at the show.

“Absolutely, calm on the inside can make you glow on the outside. I also get a lot of sleep. But I’m a happy person and in such a good place,” she said.

The 33-year-old, who is mom to baby girl North West, 1, also hit the the Vogue Foundation Gala at Palais Galliera where her half-sister Kendall Jenner was serving as a “Balmain’s Army” model. Jenner, 18, also walked in Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel show Tuesday.

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Kardashian donned a cage-like blouse and leopard skirt for the occasion and showed support for Balmain’s designer and pal, Olivier Rousteing, who happily gave the former sex-tape star a kiss on the cheek.

Kardashian also posed with Jenner and a slew of leggy Balmain models and shared the pic on Instagram, which she captioned, “The Army #Balmain #IFeelShort.”

The Parisian trip lasted only 24 hours and came on the heels of a stop in New Jersey, where she joined up with sisters Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian as they filmed their spinoff “Kourtney and Khloe Take the Hamptons” on the Jersey Shore, her spokeswoman confirmed to USA Today.

Interested in more couture du jour? Follow me @NardineSaad.

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